Reid: 'Very Disappointed' by Blagojevich Arrest

By Paul Kane
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) spoke to the Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich (D) just "a few days ago" about the appointment to succeed Barack Obama, delivering a message the electability was the key concern for who got the nod.

So,if Mr Holier then Thou Sen Harry Reid is
"disappointed by Gov Blagojevich's arrest
then maybe Harry Reid needs to be looking
at the huge and growing number of good
Americans that are even more totally fed up
and extremely disappointed with Messiah
Democrat Affirmative Action President Trainee Chicago Democrat Con Man Barack
Obama and with the Democrat Culture of Total Corruption that he and Speaker Nancy
Pelosi and Barack Hussein Obama along with
Sen Chris Dodd and Rep Barney Franks all are in charge of as well. Its time to make
all these sleazy slimeball Democrats resign
from Congress and ship them off to jail and
start with Barack Hussein Obama,Joe Mouth
Biden,Harry Reid,Nancy Pelosi,Chris Dodd
and Barney Franks. And Obama is unfit to
be sworn in as President of the USA.

I am a registered D here in PA and I am both disappointed and disgusted to see that such a slug of a person calling himself a Democrat could slime his way to the Governorship of Illinois. What does that say about the process? Apparently this son of a Chicago alderman greased the rails with money all the way to the top. If I was an Illinois legislator, I'd be leading the charge to impeach and oust this monster as soon as practicable. The state needs to put out the trash because it's starting to stink the place up. What are these people thinking??? It's like the Spitzer thing in New York, only even worse. It goes to their heads.

The last political figure that Fitzgerald indicted was Scooter Libby and the republocult howled that he was a partisan, out of control prosecutor that should be fired. LOL.
What a sorry group of pathetic losers the republocult is.

The only thing Dirty Harry was disappointed about was that the slug Governor got caught. Typical Illinois corruption that gave us the affirmative action boy. Pathetic and contemptible.
Posted by: LarryG62 | December 9, 2008 5:38 PM | Report abuse

Affirmative action boy? What does that even mean? You are against the idea of racial equality in the US?

You must really hate Bush since he was able to get into Yale on C+ grades just because of his family name while hundreds of thousands of applicants who were rejected had almost perfect grades .

If affirmative action is helping get rid of these same rich, white, corrupt political families who have run this country into the ground I’m behind it 100%!

Extra: Mr. Harris, leader of Democratic party Hq was also arrested on same charges. Next: isn't this connect dots, to offerr bribes, someone whose capable of filling those bribes must be involved, eg Hon Obama esq?

I'm no Blagojevic fan, or expert on Illinois politics, but there's something off about all this. Why not let him turn himself in? Why the showy arrest and the leakage around the supposed wiretap? The guy's not a flight risk.

You know what that signals to me? They don't have all that strong a case. I wouldn't be surprised to see the Governor's attorneys coming back at Fitzgerald in the next few news cycles.

This doesn't hurt the Dems -- they wanted to get rid of him anyway. The GOP will crow for a few days, but that's what they do. You can't expect the party of Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney, Duke Cunningham, George Ryan, Ted Stevens, Don Young, Larry Craig, Mark Foley, et al, to pass up a chance to accuse somebody else of corruption.

The very notion of having Obama pay for the election of his replacement is idiotic. First, that is not allowed in the state of Illinois unless the law is changed. Second, many governors and senators have advanced to higher office, including the presidency, I will be shocked if any of them, ever, had to personally pay for the election of their own replacement. A very stupid idea.

Since Barack Obama is leaving his Elected Post to move on to the Presidency, his Campaign should be held liable. Barack Obama should pay for another State Election to fill his soon to be vacant senate seat. He has more than enough money in his coffers to pay for Ballots, and Election Personell to get this accomplished. This would be the Responsible thing to do, and would put the power back in the Hands of the People to decide whom they want as their next Senator.

The Final Decision should be up to the Voters in this State. Though if the DNC picks a real bad choice it may help their opponents in the next election cycle.

"Very disappointed" You gotta be kidding. What happened to Reid's constant "outrage" when it came to Republicans being indicted (and rightfully so).

It's a shame, really, to have such a weak Congressional leadership. That will be Obama's greatest problem in the years to come. Too bad he has no authority to bring change to the legislative branch, too.

Tony Rezko (Obama's close friend who got him a low interest home loan) is central to the indictment. Democratic Senator Harry Reid's phone conversations with the governor should be made public; Senator Reid was likely lobbying on someone's behalf and didn't know the FBI was recording everything he said.

bamccampbell, you're very much mistaken. The US Attorney on the case, Patrick Fitzgerald, is THE SAME GUY WHO INDICTED SCOOTER LIBBY. He is smart and clean. Even Rove and Gonzalez and their minions didn't dare touch him.

M_Algore...first let me say corruption in politics has been going on for years. I'm just shocked it was going on over the vacated senate seat of an incoming president...doesn't matter which party. Hopefully the new president will show he runs an administration void of corruption. This system needs that kind of change. If you, based on your comment, don't care to witness it here, you can relocate to Iran...I'm sure no one will notice, not care!

Reid and Pelosi should have thrown Blagojevich under the bus when asked about his arrest.

ALL POLITICAL SCUM NEED TO GO TO PRISON REGARDLESS OF THEIR POLITICAL AFFILIATION!

How are we going to see the treasonous Cheney in a jumpsuit and watch Karl rove get his long overdue frog-walk in cuffs if we aren't going to castigate a guy who is caught on tape selling out our votes and government?

The biggest problem for the common american is the close connections between the political elit and the economic elite in the US. That is why the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Does the common american have persons which actually represents him at the place where the political decissions are made today ? ( by Helgis - Norway )

Unfortunately, Blagojevich's antics aren't unusual among high-ranking politicians, but how likely is it that a Republican Justice Department would tap the phones of a Republican governor suspected of similar activities?

Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, et. al. are walking away from death and destruction they intentionally (and unnecessarily) caused. On his way out the door, Bush is slapping America in the face with the favors he's giving to the coal, oil, and mining industries, among others. Bush, Cheney and their cohorts are the greatest criminals of our time, and yet there will be no accountability.

With the lowest approval rating in history, Bush has no interest in rehabilitating his image. His job is, and always has been, making sure that he and his friends get richer.

The sad part is that they'll be back again in sheep's clothing, using their billions and their propaganda to convince voters that they really are not wolves.

@m_algore: "DEMOCRAT CULTURE OF CORRUPTION - brought to you by PELOSI, REID and the AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PREZ"

wow, if you learned to spell, call the party by its actual name, and then remember that the previous GOP governor of Illinois is in jail for corruption, maybe you would have edited this comment so it would be useful....